codingdave, I think you really hit on exactly the right point, and in doing so have also spoken to my mind exactly where we've gone off the rails as an industry

codingdave, I think you really hit on exactly the right point, and in doing so have also spoken to my mind exactly where we've gone off the rails as an industry in our hiring practice. When we interview people, we do so in such a way that we believe someone is capable of showing mastery of the field, where those who have been in the field a long time and agree with your philosophy here know that about all we can can hope to achieve is humility. It also feels like this fundamental to why this field has not been able to mature to a point of being a profession in the same form as other fields - because while we can teach a lawyer the law and we can teach a doctor a particular way to perform a technique, software is all just a bit wet and sticky.